> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:18:59 -0800 > From: David Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thus spake Kevin Oberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've been seeing this for a couple of weeks since I updated my laptop to > > CURRENT. I do a normal shutdown (-p or -r) and reboot. The shutdown > > looked normal, with no problems reported with the sync, but, when the > > system is rebooted, the partitions are all shown as possibly > > unclean. From my dmesg: > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted > > WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted > > WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted > > > > All disks are mounted with soft-updates enabled. > > > > I don't see any other reports of this. Is this unique to my system? > > Unlike the SCSI driver, the ATA driver does not send a flush cache > command to your disks before powering off the system. The kernel > waits for five seconds in either case, but for some disks that may > not be sufficient. > > The following patch should fix that, although it may have rotted a > bit in the last two months given Soeren's sweeping ATA changes. I > also edited an unrelated change out of the diff, which might > confuse patch(1). If you run into problems getting it to apply, > let me know and I'll fix it when I'm back from vacation.
Thanks, but the issue was not a write cache problem. It was the change in the UFS1 super-block in V5. After I performed an fsck_ffs on each partition, the errors vanished. All appears to be running fine. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
